This is me with my parents. When a webpage takes a moment to load, they’ll look at me and be like, why isn’t this loading?
And then I’ll be like, bruh, back in the day, I had to stop using the internet, because you wanted to make a phone call. You’ll survive waiting a goddamn femtosecond longer.
My crappy basement apartment with my two older brothers and 3 separate phone lines just for playing Ultima Online, then Everquesst.
I missed a phone interview with Sony Online Entertainment, because I was too busy playing Asheron’s Call to get off the dial-up connection. Having an unlimited access plan through my work really was bad. Especially when my job blocked every website based on my job searches because they wanted me to stay working the support line graveyard shift.
Dsl wasn’t offered in my area until 2012 ish. Up till then I was using crappy 3g wireless dongles or my last 56k modem which had built in ethernet ports (still have that modem just in case). I feel this meme.
56K was my intro to the internet. Not as ancient, but pretty close. Now I have gigabit, so instead of waiting for a week, only donwloading at night, now I can get a movie in minutes. What a world to live in.
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This is me with my parents. When a webpage takes a moment to load, they’ll look at me and be like, why isn’t this loading?
And then I’ll be like, bruh, back in the day, I had to stop using the internet, because you wanted to make a phone call. You’ll survive waiting a goddamn femtosecond longer.
So many people don’t know the pain of loading their porn at the blazing speed of 36kb/sex or less.
How many people were having sex?
bonk!
Yeah, speed demon 9600 baud on CompuServe
My kids will never know the pain of being denied internet access because I’m waiting for a phone call.
My crappy basement apartment with my two older brothers and 3 separate phone lines just for playing Ultima Online, then Everquesst.
I missed a phone interview with Sony Online Entertainment, because I was too busy playing Asheron’s Call to get off the dial-up connection. Having an unlimited access plan through my work really was bad. Especially when my job blocked every website based on my job searches because they wanted me to stay working the support line graveyard shift.
God I loved UO and early EQ
Kids will not understand the pain of downloading a 3mb file for 25minutes straight and then realize is a virus/porn/gore/etc instead of what you want.
it was worse when you wanted a movie. You’d wait a week, only to find out it was german scat porn.
Or how about the nearly hour long process to burn a $1 blank CD and I’ve it fail as a penniless teenager
Or those 100 CDs for cheap of which you could literally peel off the data(or whatever you peeled off :-)
Got a whole bunch from my SOs father, after like 7 tries I told him, he’s answer yes “I never got them working”.
Got like 10 2GB SD cards he gave me too, but I was prepared and they all were like non functional.
A gigabyte was a whole lot of data back in the day.
Porn pictures loading line by line… I see a nipple! That’s a nipple!
Or adaptive jpegs, where did they go?
I mean the second last rez is probably less than a third of the last one…
By then the lightning fast speeds were nothing to me but BLINDING
Dsl wasn’t offered in my area until 2012 ish. Up till then I was using crappy 3g wireless dongles or my last 56k modem which had built in ethernet ports (still have that modem just in case). I feel this meme.
I thought I was rural but you’re a whole different level
I would assume he’s getman.
Krrrrrtztztzdztzdzdztz
dedu dedu deduuuuu
Until 6 months ago I had 2Mb/s (with a tailwind) DSL that had a consistent 10% packet loss.
I feel I have earned my 2Gb/s fibre!
My first modem was 1200 baud, Compuserve was the only internet provider costing around $7 an hour and was a long distance call that was 50¢ a minute.
1200 baud in 1994. I’m ancient.
Baudbrand
56K was my intro to the internet. Not as ancient, but pretty close. Now I have gigabit, so instead of waiting for a week, only donwloading at night, now I can get a movie in minutes. What a world to live in.
My brand!
When your brother’s girlfriend calls and it disconnects your downloads. And in general not using the Internet when someone is on the phone lol.
Need to use the * codes to disable the call waiting tones… I think it was * 72?